Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), March 2015

by: jpwagner
text: (part-time or full-time) Level Solar - Boston &#x2F; Cambridge MA &#x2F; NYC -- <a href="http://levelsolar.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;levelsolar.com</a><p>Level Solar is a residential solar installer.  We are a startup, one year in, and already have hundreds of installs in the Long Island area.  Our HQ is in NYC and we have a software team growing in Cambridge MA.  Some examples of project directions include:<p>- automating key parts of the lead to sale process<p>- mobile development on internal apps<p>- mobile development on external (customer-facing) apps<p>- (IoT) home automation and data collection<p>We are looking for a few awesome contributors.  Please respond if you are experienced in object-oriented programming and mobile development.  Please also mention if you&#x27;ve worked with sales automation, solar, or projects in the internet of things space.<p>Please reach out to jim &lt;dot&gt; wagner &lt;&lt;at&gt;&gt; levelsolar &lt;dot&gt; com.

by: owensbla
text: Coolhouse Labs (<a href="http://coolhouselabs.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;coolhouselabs.com&#x2F;</a>) - Onsite, Harbor Springs, MI - Summer (Jun-Aug) Contract<p>Coolhouse Labs is an early stage tech startup accelerator + venture fund founded on the shores of Lake Michigan. Kinda like summer camp for startups, but with less bug bites. We run two programs each year - Summer Camp for Startups in Northern Michigan, and Winters in Ann Arbor.<p>We&#x27;re hiring 6 designers (4 mid&#x2F;senior, 2 entry&#x2F;intern) to come work with our portfolio companies this summer. You&#x27;ll be working in a very fast paced environment helping teams iterate on web&#x2F;mobile app product designs, marketing collateral, and company brands.<p>If interested, please email blake@coolhouselabs.com with a brief intro and link to your portfolio.<p>Come build something awesome with us this summer!

by: josscrowcroft
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>We&#x27;re looking for a freelance JavaScript developer and open source advocate at Open Exchange Rates, to take over maintenance of our two popular open source libraries, money.js[1] and accounting.js[2].<p>Between them, these projects have hundreds of thousands of users, thousands of articles and tutorials, and hundreds of community forks.<p>This is an opportunity to get paid to chill out with a passion project, which carries your name and belongs to the developer community forever.<p>You’ll be taking ownership of:<p>* keeping the libraries in alignment with the latest coding standards,<p>* merging contributions and resolving issues from the GitHub community,<p>* keeping track of forks and integrations,<p>* rewriting their documentation, and<p>* leading and interacting with the community of developers building with them every day.<p>NOTE: These projects are public and open source, but we&#x27;re treating this as a standard freelance project to begin with. After the first phase, we&#x27;ll have a discussion to see how things want to progress. We have many more open source projects in the pipeline – and internal gigs too.<p>We’re from London, but you can be anywhere. Let&#x27;s make some art.<p>Please include your GitHub profile, website, relevant projects and experience, and availability over the next 6 months.<p>CONTACT: Jobs at openexchangerates.org<p>[1] <a href="http://openexchangerates.github.io/money.js/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;openexchangerates.github.io&#x2F;money.js&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="http://openexchangerates.github.io/accounting.js/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;openexchangerates.github.io&#x2F;accounting.js&#x2F;</a>

by: izyda
text: <p>We&#x27;re a group of researchers &#x2F; students working on an analytics platform. The backend of our platform is built in Flask and C++&#x2F;R.<p>We&#x27;re seeking a developer(s) to develop a standalone front end of the app (that makes API calls to the Flask backend).<p>We require:<p>- Knowledge of a modern Javascript framework &#x2F; some founded opinion on which should be used.<p>- Knowledge of d3.js &#x2F; Knowledge of data visualization in Javascript<p>- Experience building dashboard&#x2F;admin style web apps<p>- Experience with Flask would be a bonus<p>We&#x27;re &quot;technical&quot; in the sense that we have extensive experience with scientific programming &#x2F; algorithm development &#x2F; machine learning. We have a basic understanding of Flask. We want to work with someone someone who understands that some parts of the codebase cannot be shared - hence the need for an independent &quot;front end&quot; app that makes API calls. We understand that this may not be an orthodox way to work so patience&#x2F;understanding are a must.<p>If this sounds like something you&#x27;d be interested in, email us at: btydee@gmail.com

by: dfreire
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>I&#x27;m looking for programmers interested in working in part time.<p>If you are interested, please contact me by filling the form at:
<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RPmLS9IqQPrwEGOTLT_AZBGmBijxINBn0z4ucddEkpE/viewform" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;forms&#x2F;d&#x2F;1RPmLS9IqQPrwEGOTLT_AZBGmBij...</a><p>Your experience and particular skills will not be decisive (although we will be working with javascript, nodejs and go), there will be a mentoring period and probably a test project before doing any real work, but I do value attention to detail, intelligence, ability to learn, and ability to get things done.<p>In the beginning, I want to start slowly but steadily, pair programming sessions of about one hour each day, almost every day.<p>If you want to get ahead of the pack, send me a description of your background, motivation, expectations (financial or other), and samples of your work (links, screenshots, code samples, etc.)

by: wferrell
text: d3.js (or similar data visualization) Expert<p>We are looking to find a data visualization expert to help us make some interesting and fun graphics involving email data.<p>Think something like: <a href="http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.stephenwolfram.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;03&#x2F;the-personal-analytic...</a><p>If you have experince working with d3.js or other data visualization software and would be interested in working on developing a set of visualizations, we woud love to talk to you!<p>Please shoot me an email at wferrell AT gmail with information about you and links to samples of your work

by: josscrowcroft
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>We&#x27;re looking for a creative branding artist and graphic designer at Open Exchange Rates.<p>This will be a well-scoped and fast-paced contract, with ongoing work for the right candidate.<p>We need:<p>. Diverse and in-depth experience with branding and design in startups, software-as-a-service and larger companies both B2B and B2C,<p>. Knowledge and understanding of the open source and web development community,<p>. Strong communication, accountability and authenticity,<p>. Skill with creative writing and storytelling,<p>. Fluent written and spoken English - we&#x27;ll be Skyping and Slacking a lot – and<p>. A calm, confident, creative, collaborative approach.<p>If this sounds like you, please email JOBS at openexchangerates.org, including:<p>. Your portfolio<p>. Your availability<p>. Your daily&#x2F;weekly&#x2F;per project rates

by: sventura
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS - Remote - Frontend - Javascript, HTML, CSS<p>I&#x27;m looking for a number of people who are interested in freelance work in (primarily) JS. Remote is fine, prefer full time (or close) availability and some overlap with UK GMT time would help.<p>The development will be using our API and the Google Closure library (experience not required). A strong background in JS&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;CSS is needed.<p>There are a large number of projects available and they require little coordination, so they are pretty ideal for remote freelancing.<p>Contact me (Sebastián) at sventura at monetate if you&#x27;re interested or have any questions.
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by: josscrowcroft
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS<p>Location: London, remote possible.<p>Timeframe: ASAP, 3-6 months.<p>We’re looking for a software developer for a large contract at Open Exchange Rates, the fastest-growing global currency data API on the web.<p>You’ll need thorough knowledge and experience building API stacks and environments, including nodeJS a plus. You’ll need to be creatively independent – able to architect, implement and document expertly – and able to confidently lead a project from start to finish.<p>All the other usual keywords apply (though for this stage, advanced front-end skills not required).<p>We look forward to hearing from you.<p>JOBS at openexchangerates.org

by: amac
text: Remote.<p>PROJECT: Help build an iOS fitness app.<p>MOTIVATION: Help build an automatic diary for your life.<p>SKILLS: iOS development. (objective-c, c++, cocoa etc) The project is called &#x27;Legend&#x27; and our website is <a href="http://legendwearable.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;legendwearable.com</a>. My e-mail address and more about me is in my profile (or email am@legendwearable.com). Get in touch with any questions, or ask them here and I&#x27;ll try to get back to you.

by: gnicholas
text: (SF, remote OK)<p>We are looking for a front-end dev with a decent design sense. Experience working with Chrome and Firefox extensions a plus. We are moving our browser plugins, which have 50k users, from free to freemium and need help with the onboarding&#x2F;upgrading experience.<p>Separately, we are looking for a dev with strong PDF experience. Email gnicholas@gmail.com with portfolio to learn more.

by: blueatlas
text: Washington D.C. area, remote ok<p>Seeking front-end developer with a primary focus on PSD cuts, HTML&#x2F;CSS, Javascript, responsive implementations for web apps and CMS development. New builds as well as improving existing implementations.<p>Prefer full-time freelancer for ongoing project work.<p>Email: dnb ta blueatlas.com

by: SamRockwall
text: Remote<p>Looking for an web developer with F# experience to help build a new platform for an enterprise customer. Also helps if you have C# experience too.<p>Please respond here with your info here or contact me at samrockwall@gmail.com.

by: cymbalojobs
text: REMOTE or LONDON<p>We are a developer-focused, industry-leading, bootstrapped company, with 30,000+ global users.<p>We&#x27;re loved by Kickstarter, Braintree, Etsy, Shopify, JustGiving, Paymill, WordPress&#x2F;Automattic, Lonely Planet, Fab.com, and many other household-name clients.<p>Our clients are developers, startups, independent retailers, international charities, major universities and global brands – our product touches the lives of tens of millions every day.<p>We’re CLEANING HOUSE and redesigning our platform from scratch – from a monolithic mashup, to a lean MICROSERVICE ARCHITECTURE.<p>|<p>BENEFITS OF THIS GIG<p>* Freedom. * No legacy code to maintain. Not one line. You have complete creative choice.<p>* Speed. * Well-scoped, fast-paced and fun. Effortless communication. No red tape. No cross-team dependencies.<p>* Autonomy. * No investors or board to please. We’re 100% self-owned.<p>* Potential. * We have as much (or as little) work as you want going forward.<p>* Location. * Work from anywhere (if you&#x27;re in London, we can provide a desk).<p>|<p>YOUR ROLE(S)<p>Three components of this project. Choose any or all:<p>0. Help us DESIGN our new microservice architecture and SELECT the best tools (advisor role).<p>1. Help us BUILD our new platform from scratch (developer role).<p>2. Help us WRITE our public and internal documentation (technical writer role).<p>|<p>BASIC REQUIREMENTS<p>»»» Calm, creative and competent approach to life and work.<p>»»» Strong communication, accountability and authenticity. Fluent written and spoken English (Skype required)<p>»»» Python, PHP, JavaScript and NodeJS a must + full grasp of popular frameworks.<p>»»» Ease with relational and non-relational databases<p>»»» Experience with designing and implementing data processing algorithms<p>»»» Understanding of API stacks, design, structure and authentication<p>»»» Fluency with sysadmin and command line environments<p>»»» Commitment to coding standards, version control (we use GitHub) and documentation<p>»»» Bonus: front-end development skills (dashboards)<p>»»» Bonus: familiarity with finance industry<p>|<p>IF THIS IS YOU<p>Please send a <i>concise</i> application to ‘jobs’ at cymbalo.com, including your story, values, recent relevant experience, hourly&#x2F;weekly rates and general availability.<p>We look forward to working with you.